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Fiscal Fact Checker (Revisited): CBO's Record on Scoring the Affordable Care Act
Critics of CBO scoring like to cite past predictions that widely missed the mark. Sometimes, too, critics compare apples to oranges, and that is the...
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A Lively Debate on the Affordable Care Act
Yesterday, Medicare trustee Charles Blahous and former chief economist for Vice President Biden Jared Bernstein had a debate about the fiscal...
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A Progressive Retirement Age?
Yesterday, Zeke Emanuel advanced an interesting proposal for Social Security and Medicare in a blog at The New York Times: varying the retirement ages...
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Fixing Medicare Double-Counting
Donald Marron, who recently wrote a blog post on how budget limits are treated in Congressional rules, wrote a piece today detailing how Medicare Part...
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Ten Things to Know About Military Compensation
On Friday, Lawrence Korb, Alex Rothman, and Max Hoffman of the Center for American Progress wrote "The Top 10 Things to Know About Military...
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Bipartisan Physician Payment Reform Can Do Without the War Gimmick
Reps. Allyson Schwartz (D-PA) and Joe Heck (R-NV) have introduced a bill to overhaul the Medicare physician payment system.
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The Temporary Budget
Over at Wonkblog, Sarah Kliff points out that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) may contain a new "doc fix" -- only this time in Medicaid. The current...
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Double Counting and Medicare Part A
Last month, Social Security and Medicare Trustee Chuck Blahous sparked a controversy by saying that the Affordable Care Act would add to the deficit...
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How Is the House Replacing the Sequester?
Update: CBO has posted scores for the Energy and Commerce and Oversight bills. They would save $113 billion and $83.3 billion, respectively, over ten...
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The Medicare Trustees Report
While we have already broken down the Social Security Trustees report, the Trustees have also produced a report for Medicare. Considering that health...
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Any Minute Now....
The Social Security and Medicare Trustees have signed off on their respective reports on the financial projections for the two programs, though we...
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Trust Funds and the Budget
Charles Blahous's paper on the Affordable Care Act has sparked a lot of buzz, leading to some discussion about "double-counting" the Medicare savings...